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Description
The mobility project is needed to increase the number of teachers and students mobilities, with Norwegian universities. At the same time the "Lucian Blaga" University strives to assure internationalization at-home for non-mobile students by creating an international environment through incoming professors, academic staff and students. The objective of the project is to create sustainable networks and to enhance the international cooperation with universities from EEA states, through academic mobility, the improvement of transparency and recognition of studies/improvement of staff skills and qualifications. The university will encourage the implementation of best practices for improving the quality of higher education and for developing a common curriculum. Our institution ensures a supportive environment for the development of human resources through encouraging the mobilities and increasing job satisfaction. Students’ participation will be visible in their future careers and initiatives, for an easier insertion on the labour market. Direct beneficiaries will be students, in all cycles of studies, who will experience a new study/practice environment, for a smoother inclusion on the labor market. Also teachers and administrative staffs, will experience new methods of teaching and job shadowing, in order to use the acquired knowledge in their future career. A special attention will be given to the Roma citizens for reducing social and financial disparities.The project will encourage and facilitate a very close cooperation between "Lucian Blaga" University and EEA partners, in order to achieve the above-mentioned objectives. The roles of the partners will be to provide relevant support for mobilities’ beneficiaries and for sustainable and balanced outcomes for all the involved partners.
Summary of project results
The objective of project implemented at "Lucian Blaga" University was to create sustainable networks and to enhance the international cooperation capacity between universities from EEA states, through the academic mobility, the improvement of transparency and recognition of studies and also through the improvement of staff skills and qualifications.
For a good implementation of the project, the following activities were undertaken:
- promotion and dissemination of the mobility opportunities offered through the project,
- organisation of the selection procedures for mobility
- nomination of the beneficiaries to the donor states partner universities
- organisation, in cooperation with the NO partners, of the beneficiaries mobilities
- organisation of Info sessions for beneficiaries
For the available students mobility flows, 3 students were selected to follow a study mobility. Due to personal reasons (health problems, having already a job, etc), 2 students dropped out their mobilities.
Thus, one student benefited from the EEA mobilities , for the second semester of the academic year 2018/2019.
Also, 3 academic staff followed Teaching mobilities , and 13 academics and administrative staff have been involved in Staff Training mobilities at partner Norwegian universities. In the same time, PP has received one academic from the donor state partner universities for staff training mobility.
Due to students’ reticence (high livings costs) in applying for mobilities in EEA states, less students than the number approved in the financial agreement, showed interest for outgoing study mobilities.
"Lucian Blaga" University aimed at increasing the number of mobilities of teachers and students in all three cycles, for study and placement. Thus, the proposed number of staff straining mobilities aimed to identify new collaboration opportunities for students exchanges, both outgoing and incoming, to develop new bilateral collaboration on new study fields.
Summary of bilateral results
The partnership project encouraged and facilitated a very close cooperation between "Lucian Blaga" University and EEA donor state partners for the best implementation of the mobility project, in order to achieve the mentioned objectives of the project. The role of the partners was to provide relevant support to staff and students participating in the mobilities and to ensure that the cooperation will lead to sustainable and balanced outcomes for all the involved partners.Partnership ensured a fruitful cooperation of mutual benefit and strengthened the bilateral relations between Romania and donor states, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein.One of the main goals of "Lucian Blaga" University is the internationalization of studies and through the bilateral partnership, "Lucian Blaga" University strived to keep up with the EU education development, in order for students to have the best conditions to reach for contemporary European education, which would assure an easier future integration on the labour market.Within the bilateral partnership a great variety of activities were undertaken in order to improve curricula and introduce new topics and courses through transnational collaboration between universities.Moreover, there have been made important steps towards shared results, as developing an project idea in Engineering, on “Smart Drone Traffic in Smart Cities”, in cooperation with University of South-Eastern Norway.